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^ One of my former instructors was said to have continued training--not just in drills but in sparring--through the entirety of all three of her pregnancies. I understand her mentality but think it was cruel toward her students. She must have believed she could protect her fetus, but no sane person could give their all in a match against a pregnant woman. As soon as I suspected that I was pregnant, I went to light contact sparring. I've figured out since then that "no contact" isn't even an option, because I have a tendency to step into an attack to get the upper hand. I won't be sparring again until after childbirth.
But now that my belly's getting big, some people dislike so much as throwing a technique in my direction. They know better than to show their discomfort during class. Still, I feel a bit sorry for them when they mention it afterward.
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Last night---afternoon to you non-nightshift workers---I dreamed I'd gone into work and my regular partner on Saturday was on vacation and the result was near-chaos.
Of course, after I woke up, I went into work and my regular partner on Saturday was on vacation and the result was near-chaos.
What's the point in dreaming something if I'm just going to live through it all again when I wake up?
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Doesn't appeal to me much...I wish I could "lucid dream" more often and use it as an escape from reality...on the other hand, I wouldn't even get out of bed to do something like this, much less write, or even go to work.
I had a better dream last night. I was getting married to a most charming woman, only seen briefly in the dream, but the wedding was taking place in some warren of discount retail stores. I was woken up by my alarm before I even got to the altar to say "I do."
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aspirit: if you can find a copy, read Poul Anderson's Brain Waves, which kinda deals with this theme.
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Robert, lucid dreaming isn't all fun. After a while, you can start to feel as that you're dragged off to unreal places against your will. Though you can control aspects of a dream, it's more difficult to control whether or not you dream that night.
Also, thanks for the recommendation. My public library has a copy of Anderson's Brain Wave.
Random thought for the day: Not thinking about anything can be relaxing, even when it's not during meditation. Pregnancy comes with all sorts of benefits.
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I can't get pregnant, I'm a guy... I can think of nothing, I'm a guy.
Actually, I learned how to relax a whole lot of years ago when I had to take speech therapy classes. The person who relaxed the best got to hold a doll for the class. I never relaxed enough. In the last few years the idea hit me that that could have been because I was a guy. But in either case I think I learned to relax there.
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But speaking of lucid dreams there's a TV show about that. A police officer lives in two worlds but he doesn't know which is the waking world and which is the dreaming world.
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quote:lucid dreaming isn't all fun. After a while, you can start to feel as that you're dragged off to unreal places against your will.
One more time.... make a great idea for a story and/or book
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LD, thanks for that link! I'm currently researching asteroid mining for a story. As for dream stories, I've started two shorts that involve an MC being forced to a dreamworld to help solve dream-beings' problems. Neither are well-developed stories; although, for the more recent, I think the problem is mostly weak characterization.
quote:I can think of nothing, I'm a guy.
I've heard, mostly from comedians, that thinking of nothing is easier for men. However, I can argue that thinking about nothing and not thinking about anything aren't always the same.
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Sorry to hear that...I suppose if I wanted to escape from reality that badly, there are still drugs and such available...but the same problems would come up.
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quote:I can't get pregnant, I'm a guy... I can think of nothing, I'm a guy.
Well, cheer up, think of all the advantages...
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Thanks KD. I don't know what was better, The catch or the dumbfounded look from the players she showed up.
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That was one spectacular catch--like something out of a movie. I'd be dumbfounded if I were one of the other players, too.
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I just got back from a book signing by Hatrack's own Mary Robinette Kowal. She did a fantastic reading and a little puppet show, and she wrote in the first sentence from "Glamour in Glass" into my hardback (because for some odd reason, the first sentence was cut from the book.)
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Wonder if I can talk her into coming around here. I always do that but so far no success... it's not like we are a small town or even small city, either.
Anyway, I have her first on my Nook, they are suppose to be working on way for writers to electronically sign E-books.
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She and her husband are moving from Oregon to Chicago, and she's stopping in several cities along the route for signings. I'm proud to say that I'm the one who alerted the owners of Broadway Book Mall that she was going to be in Denver, and then they set up the signing. So I had a hand in tonight's event. Posts: 968 | Registered: Sep 2008
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Ah, man. I would have loved to have met you, Kathleen. I spent most of my time chatting with Aaron Hughes. Although I have to say I don't remember that question, and I was listening hard to the whole discussion. I really liked her talking about her work in the SFWA.
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Yeah, I know she was moving so I was wondering how she had the time for signings.
She would have had to make a detour to do a signing here but it may not have been that much of one. Oh, well. One of these days a pro writer I know will come here. Writers I don't know have been here.
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well, my wife is in one group...she dislikes that type of humor and I'm sort of in the other group. I think some of the Three Stooges is funny, some is worth a smile but a lot isn't.
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Well, this is as good a place to say good-bye as any. "Good-bye" meaning "I'm going away for just over a week and my Internet access is limited and I won't be posting till I get back." Just like every other May and October since I've been hanging 'round here.
My relatively recent purchase of a Nook Color gives me some access---I'll be reading what you say, but posting is too much of a rigamarole on that device to make it a pleasant experience.
Someday, I really must update myself and get some of the gizmos that make it easier to reach out and touch someone. I dunno about some of it, though...I think I'll accept what technology appeals to me and my needs, and reject the rest...
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Have fun and don't worry about staying in contact...it's only a week and you are suppose to be away from it all. I know what you mean about the Nook keyboard.
I saw one on a iPad and it looked neat, took up about half the screen. Didn't get a chance to try t out though.
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Robert, I hope you're not reading this until after your vacation. Touch what's around you; we'll still be here when you return.
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Speaking of the guys in the Statue of Liberty outfits I've been meaning to say this for a over a month.
There's one guy on a street corner who must be losing weight. He advertises for a pizza place so he has a sign and T-shirt from that place. He's obviously overweight but at the same time he dances around so much it's a wonder he hasn't lost a quarter of that weight by now. He spins, dips, moved his arms all in about a two foot space.
Yesterday I saw him and hoped he had some water, it was 90 degrees at least.
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Back...the vacation was less about doing something new than getting a change of scene for a week plus...well, I did read a number of new and interesting books, none of which were SF or fantasy...
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There are several people hopping about 'round here, holding this sign or that...there are a couple of "We Buy Gold" ones, plus a couple advertising restaurants...I look at 'em and think, "Geez, I know times are tough, but there's gotta be better entry-level jobs than that..."
(Or did I say that back a couple of pages? Alas, I've used up my "A" material here...)
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Oh, yeah, I did look in and read what was going on here. Sometime in the next few days, I'll respond to it...
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Pardon me for asking this here but does anyone know how YouTube works? Been trying to figure out how to invite someone to a invitation only video. Their FAQs are useless because they say click on account button but there is no account button.
May have found it by accident.
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A little venting here that goes along with my last post.
My sells her stuff through an online mall type of web site. They have rules that the stuff has to be from non pros not stores. So they want pics, copies of receipts and a video of how my wife makes her stuff. Supposedly they do this to all those who participate sooner or later but we and a couple of other crafters think some one complained.
More on my blog later.
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quote:I look at 'em and think, "Geez, I know times are tough, but there's gotta be better entry-level jobs than that..."
Yes, but it pays. Firstly, they might not be looking for a permanent positions, because they're still in school. Secondly, they might appreciate the income (and exercise) while they apply again and again and again for entry-level jobs anywhere and everywhere that might take them.
Also, silly dancing with commercial signs pays better than some jobs. My husband made less per hour as a supervisor at his current workplace than most sign-waivers in our community make.
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The robin nesting by my front door trusts my husband but freaks whenever I pass her. I think it's because my husband whistles to her while I continue, stupidly, to talk to her as if she's a mammal. That, or she's still angry that I took pictures of her eggs.
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I've got a catbird that hangs around and follows me from a distance every time I cut the lawn. Six plus years, now.
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On "entry-level jobs"...honestly, I don't know how much they pay for dancing around. Also it's a matter of personality---I don't think I could've done that when I was out looking for work, I'm not that demonstrative. (Also I sunburn easy.)
In at least one case 'round here, I think (but do not know) the dancing girl out there with the sign is a relative of the guy who owns the restaurant. But thinking isn't knowing...
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On YouTube...this might be overstating the obvious, but...do you have an account with them? (My experience with YouTube is limited to being a viewer (and voyeur)...there's a lot of really cool stuff posted there.)
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Solar eclipse today in the western U.S. (and many other places worldwide). If you're lucky enough to be in an area to watch it, don't forget your special glasses or pin-pricked cardboard box.
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